Quotes about making page 68
“People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely”
Jeanne Birdsall (1951) American children's writer
Source: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Jim Butcher book Changes
Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 26
Context: Harry Dresden: But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn’t about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn’t about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others—even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
Roger Rosenblatt (1940) American writer
Source: Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Married By Morning
“Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.”
Ian Fleming book From Russia, with Love
Source: From Russia With Love
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Letter to G. and F. Keats (December 21, 1817)
Letters (1817–1820)
“Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.”
Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles
Giulana and Magnus Bane in 1791, p. 13.
Source: The Bane Chronicles, What Really Happened in Peru (2013)
Context: "But of course you should have retreated at once from the dominant male. Are you an idiot? You are extremely lucky he was distracted from ripping out your throat by the fruit. He thought you were trying to steal his females."
"Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information. I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys. [... ] I didn't actually see any, so I didn't get the chance."
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 152
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Context: THINK BIG means opening our horizons, reaching for new possibilities in our lives, being open to whatever God has in store for us on the road ahead.
T=TALENT : If you recognize your talents, use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, you will rise to the top of your field.
H=HONEST : If we live by the rule of honesty and accept our problems, we can go far down the road of achievement.
I=INSIGHT : If we observe and reflect and commit ourselves to giving our best, we will come out on top.
N=NICE : If we are nice to others, other respond to us in the same way, and we can give our best for each other.
K=KNOWLEDGE : If we make every attempt to increase our knowledge in order to use it for human go, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
B=BOOKS : If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
I=IN-DEPTH LEARNING : If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
G=GOD : If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.
Source: The BFG
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Parker's answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970).
Source: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Eternally Yours
Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound
Source: Blood Bound
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
28 April 1778, p. 659 http://books.google.com/books?id=yYphdZ0abhUC&q=&quot;One+of+the+disadvantages+of+wine+it+makes+a+man+mistake+words+for+thoughts&quot;&pg=PA659#v=onepage <br class="br">Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II <br class="br">Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
“We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.”
Tom Robbins (1932) American writer
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Source: Cordelia's Honor
Context: Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live.
“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile”
XIV. 463–466 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Context: Tis sweet to play the fool in time and place,
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile,
The grave in merry measures frisk about,
And many a long-repented word bring out.
Daniel Woodrell (1953) Novelist
Source: Winter's Bone
“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States
Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Billie Letts book Where the Heart Is
Variant: ... tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.
Source: Where the Heart Is
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Surrender
“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
February 1954 The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. It is a materialization, an incarnation of his inner world. Then he hopes to attract others into it. He hopes to impose his particular vision and share it with others. And when the second stage is not reached, the brave artist continues nevertheless. The few moments of communion with the world are worth the pain, for it is a world for others, an inheritance for others, a gift to others, in the end. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
We also write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely. We write as the birds sing, as the primitives dance their rituals. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
“I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.”
Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Nightfall
“Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.”
Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA
Source: The Madness Underneath
“Never make the first move." - Loor (The Rivers of Zadaa)”
D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer
“No one can make you a victim but yourself.”
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984) Novelist
Source: The Den of Shadows Quartet
“The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.”
J. Gresham Machen (1881–1937) American theologian
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 1 (p. 250)
Context: Locke put his head in his hands and sighed.
“I don’t expect life to make sense,” he said after a few moments, “but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”
“Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
T.S. Eliot book The Sacred Wood
Source: "Philip Massinger", a biographical essay in The Sacred Wood (1920)